tS HILL CuLLlGE
KORIAL UBRARY
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Q*he Hilltop
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
Volume XXXn
MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1958
Id April
[Edwards And Roberson To Head
|l958-59 Women s and Men’s Councils
Arlene Edwards and Larry Roberson have been chosen president of
I the Women’s and Men’s Student Councils respectively.
I Other officers of the Women’s Student Council are vice-president,
^ertie Joyce Gray; secretary, Marie Barnes; and chaplain, Janice
[Arnold.
,The following are the other officers of the Men’s Student Council:
omas Bryant, vice-president;
President, vice-president, and sec-
fftary of each dormitory constitute
ye members of the Student Coun-
'■jl' From these officers are chosen
*^e Student Council officers.
Officers for the men’s and
^Omen’s dormitories for the 1958-
Y Perm have been elected during
'Pe past few days.
Thomas Bryant will serve as
President of Brown with Larry
^®berson, vice-president; Haskell
^^ell, secretary; and Phillip
p Iley, chaplain. In Treat, Robert
,*^nn is president; Lanny Cross,
resident; Charles Jones, sec-
retary-treasurer; and Paul Jacobs,
Slain.
AJelrose officers are Don Gross,
President; Bill Beattie, yice-presi-
'’'r; David Eugene Price, secre-
and Ronald Keller, treas-
rer. Officers for Myers and the
i.Sses are not available as the
P^r goes to press.
P^ficers in the women’s dormi-
ries include
and Haskell Ezell, secretary’. The
I to;
in Edna Moore,
rrtie Joyce Gray, president;
hPrtha Jones, secretary; Sara
ip'rkenbaker, chorister; Lynell
ji?rhran, pianist; Pat Glass, chap-
Lf.: Sylvia Culverhouse, social
jf^P'rrnan; and Joyce Hendrix, re-
^^hrnent chairman.
Ij ^Pffman girls chose LaWana
I jj^Sroves, president; Susan Shep-
vice-president; Inez Mills,
Li^^^etary; Claudia Arrowood,
A^Plain; Barbara Dean, pianist;
Lj*'*' Loftis, chorister; Karen Hop
ei,''^ and Alice Poulsen, social
iL^.'tmen; and Linda Boone, his-
'^^an.
Spilman, Maiy^ Lawrence is
Janice Arnold, vice-
|t^lent; Vicky Norris, secretary;
l^^a Rogers, chaplain; Helen
|L ,°tte, chorister; and Linda
L(j!'*Pe, social chairman. Stroup
dj are Arlene Edwards, presi-
Susanne Gannt, vice-presi-
[) Marie Barnes, secretary;
Eller, chaplain; Madeline
pianist; Catherine Logan,
i^J'ater; and Carolyn Cromer,
PP chairman.
il^-Mars Hillians
appear In Concert
former Mars Hillians
>ipear with the madrigal
Peabody
Tenn.;
Co||"l^ from George
Nashville,
present a concert at
P- m.. May 9, in the Col-
Auditorium.
ilj,''fliided in the group are
^ Irma Helen Hopkins,
5?'.
f^olvard and Carl Ander-
^ I music teacher, and" Miss
')[ ’ J>Uisic majors and members
'Jf e'e 1957 graduating class
'Vlars
ki
Skylight” Selected
For Final Drama
“The Skylight” by Elizabeth
Webster Watson, director of dra
matics in Hars Hill College, will
be presented Friday, May 30, as
the commencement play.
The play is based on the portion
of the life of George Washington
Carver which he spent at Simpson
College in Indianola, Iowa. Mrs.
Watson is a former resident of
Indianola, and an alumna of
Simpson.
George Washington Carver, at
different ages, is portrayed by
Ronnie Harris, Joel Land and
Bill Currin. Barbara Stevens
plays the part of Carver’s mother.
Jan Hensley takes the part of
Moses Carver, a farmer and slave
owner of Diamond Grove, Mo.
Oleta Murphree plays the part of
George Carver’s wife.
Phillip Kelley, Ronnie Mont
gomery, George Parker, Dean
Coffey, Bill Davis, Robert Mann,
Coleman Markham, and Ralph
Cauthen appear as night raiders,
bushwhackers, and guerilla fight
ers. Gladys Leech plays Maria
Watkins and Norene Rivero,
Lucy Seymour, both negro women.
Ron Searcy plays the husband of
the latter.
Ed Ferrell portrays Duncan
Brown, D.D., president of High
land University.
The president of Simpson Col
lege, Professor Edmund Holmes,
is played by Tom Lawrence. Etta
Budd, art instructor at Simpson,
is played by Martha Caudle, and
(Continued on Page Four)
Fashions To Highlight
Spring Open House
Fhe highlight of the open house
to be held by the Mars Hill Col
lege Home Economics department
Tuesday, May 13, will be a
fashion show. Open house is being
held from 1 ;00 to 3:00 for the
high school home economics de
partments of Madison, Buncombe,
and Yancey counties. College stu
dents, faculty, staff, and towns-
(Continued on Page Four)
Exams to Begin May 23
Second semester exams are to be held May 23, 24, 26, 27, 28.
Class
Examination Time
Hill.
8:00 MWF
2:30 TTS
11:30 TTS
Friday
May
23
( 8:00 -
(10:30 -
( 2:30 -
10:00)
12:30)
4:30)
9:00 MWF
12:30 TTS
10:30 TTS
Saturday
May
24
( 8:00 -
(10:30 -
( 2:30 -
10:00)
12:30)
4:30)
10:30 MWF
1:30 TTS
9:00 TTS
Monday
May
26
( 8:00 -
(10:30 -
( 2:30 -
10:00)
12:30)
4:30)
11:30 MWF
3:30 MWF
8:00 TTS
Tuesday
May
27
( 8:00 -
(10:30 -
( 2:30 -
10:00)
12:30)
4:30)
1:30 MWF
12:30 MWF
2:30 MWF
Wednesday
May
28
( 8:00 -
(10:30 -
( 2:30 -
10:00)
12:30)
4:30)
3:30 TTS
Others - Specials
Thursday
( 8:00 -
(10:30 -
10:00)
12:30)
Joint Councils
Hold Banquet
Oleta Murphree presided over
the student council banquet held
in the Blue Room of the dining
hall, Wednesday, May 7. Buck
Lyda, outgoing president of the
men’s council, assisted her.
Oleta and Buck issued chal
lenges to the new officers to
which Bertie Joyce Gray and
Larrj' Roberson responded. Dr.
Hoyt Blackwell delivered a
charge to the joint councils.
Number 14
Pictured above are tbe 1958-59 College A^arsbals. They are first
row (1. to r.) Jeanene Hardy; Roberta Gunnett; Jeanne Coleman,
assistant chief; Barbara Dean; Carol Ann Young; and Kay Wright.
Second row: Julius Ellen; Joe Milam; David Price; Bob Blanton;
Albert Blackwell, chief; and Lanny Cross.
Blackwell Is Selected
Chief College Marshal
Hill was recently chosen to serve as
commencement exercises and all public
Albert Blackwell of Mars
chief marshal in the 1958
functions in the 1958-59 school term
Assistant chief is Jeane Coleman of Richmond, Va. Other marshals
are Bob Blanton of Gastonia; Lanny Cross of Florence, S. C.;
Barbara Dean, Winston-Salem; Julius Ellen, Rocky Mount; Roberta
Gunnett, Williamsburg, Pa.; Jeanene Hardy, Boonville; Joe Milam,
Jr. of Asheville; David Price of
Erwin, Tenn.; Kay Wright of
Bryson City; and Carol Ann
Young of Burnsville.
A committee appointed by Presi
dent Hoyt B. Blackwell selected
theorising sophomores on the basis
of college loyalty, character, aca
demic ability, campus citizenship,
personal appearance and personal
ity. The selections were approved
hy general vote of the faculty.
Recognition and induction of
the marshals took place in chapel
on Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week. Dean William L.
Lynch opened the programs with
devotional thoughts and Gerald
Deaton sang “My Task.” Fol
lowing a brief discussion by Dean
R. M. Lee of the qualifications
for being a marshal, Robert R.
Chapman had charge of the in
vestiture. The program was closed
with the singing of the “Alma
Mater.”
Retiring marshals are Coleman
Markham, chief; Patsy Kenyon,
assistant chief; Dong Choi, Ruby-
nel Austin, Charlton Davis, Bea
Champion, Frank Davis, Edith
Shepherd, Bill Prevost, Sonja
Snyder, Rayford Sowell, and
Elaine Yates.
Honor Clubs
To Hold Socials
Final meetings of the college
honor clubs will be held on
May 12 and 13, with social
events being featured by most
clubs.
Freshman members of Scrib-
lerus Club will honor sopho
more members with a buffet
supper in the court of Edna
Moore dormitory. The program
will be chiefly centered around
English lyrics concerning spring,
and traditional English games
will be played on the lawn.
The German Club plans to
go on a picnic to Carolina Hem
lock Grove on May 18, at which
time the installation of officers
will be held.
The Science Club meeting
will be held on May 12, in the
physics laboratory. Experiments
will be presented that will dem
onstrate mechanics, electronics,
and propulsion principles. A
high-voltage coil will be demon
strated by George Byram. A
small Jacob’s Ladder will also
be demonstrated. The election
of officers will be held at that
meeting and a picnic outing
will be held on Little Mountain
on May 10.
The Orpheon Club is plan
ning a picnic on May 17, at
Mr. Roberts’ home, at which
time officers will be elected.
The International Relations
Club meeting on May 13, will
be titled “Around the World in
80 Minutes.” It will consist of
a discussion of the current hap
penings in Cuba as given by
Don Van de Veer; France by
Pat Glass; Algeria by John Per-
mar; the United Arab Repub
lic by Paul Jacobs; Indonesia
by Sally Holbrook; and Japan
l)y Marilyn West. Frank Baker
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Underwood ^X^^ns
DKG Scholarship
Miss Evelyn Underwood, of the
Mars Hill College history de
partment, has been awarded the
annual Delta Kappa Gamma
scholarship for the state of North
Carolina.
Miss Underwood spent the past
week end in Winston-Salem at
tending the state convention of the
Society, at which time the pre
sentation of the scholarship was
made. She plans to use the $1500
scholarship to study toward a doc
torate at the University of North
Carolina.
Miss Underwood is a native of
Waynesville and has been a mem
ber of the Delta Kappa Gamma
Society since 1944. She holds an
A.B. degree from Woman’s Col
lege, and an M.A. from the Uni
versity of North Carolina, and has
studied for one summer at the
University of Edinburgh.
Miss Underwood is also a mem
ber of Phi Beta Kappa and of the
Southern Historical Society. Her
specialty is American history, and
she has traveled extensively both in
this country and abroad.